Kazakh President steps up purge of security agency after mass unrest; Pope calls for dialogue
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Kazakhstan’s President fired two more top security officials on Sunday after the worst unrest in three decades of post-Soviet independence and authorities said the situation was stabilising, with Russian-led troops guarding key facilities. The sacked officials were deputies to former intelligence chief Karim Massimov, who was arrested on suspicion of treason after violent […]
Ex-security chief arrested as Kazakhstan presses crackdown on unrest
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Kazakhstan’s former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason, the state security agency said on Saturday, as the former Soviet republic cracks down on a wave of unrest and starts to assign blame. The detention of Karim Massimov was announced by the National Security Committee which he headed until he was […]